Manchester Life 2018 | Page 98

roadside redux has a similar footprint, but this time, it has an actual foundation below it, and acres of brilliantly engineered site work surrounding it involving massive subterranean culverts. In the old days, the happy people sipping their cocktails at the bar likely never suspected that the footings of the structure that Seesaw built actually sat in the dirt, and that millions of gallons of snowmelt and rainwater, cascading off the mountainside and overflowing from the ponds and streams above, flowed directly underneath the floor, mere inches below the soles of their shoes. How the whole pile of logs never floated off like an ark all the way down onto the road below, no one knows. The dining room seats 60 or so, there is a room off to the side for private dining, and, of course, there is the bar, now with a little more elbow room than before. In the lower level there is a grand space called The Distillery, with a vast cask room. Prins says, “To start, we are making our own craft brands THE HAIR RETREAT A Salon for the Body, Hair, Hands & Feet 802-362-5199 Complete Hair Care for Men, Women & Children Manicures Pedicures Waxing Tanning Ear Piercing 172 Spruce Street Manchester Ctr, Vermont The three separate guest cabins are called Chicken, Butterfly and Court. 96 manchester life | manchesterlifemagazine.com